Reanna Cruz

That was the 2023 entrant from Finland.

After that, in 2024, we had No Rules from Windows 95 Man, which you'll remember as the denim song.

Last year, we had the track, It Come, from Erika Vikman, where she climbs a giant phallic-looking microphone stand.

So this kind of self-serious violin songwriter Imagine Dragons-y track is an interesting choice and maybe they're trying to like legitimize themselves as an actual contender rather than like a joke.

Well, you'll be happy to know that the EBU has granted Linda Lampinia special permission to play the violin parts live.

Yeah, basically.

So Liekenheiten has this technical violin prowess.

I know we're not talking about the visuals, but Linda Lampenius is beautiful and gorgeous and looks like a goddess.

And she's playing this violin while strutting down the catwalk.

And it's a really arresting visual and that's gotta count for something.

She's an equal part next to Pete in this track.

And I think that's really lovely as well.

The violin and the vocals are designed to kind of be in conversation with

with one another as if it's a duet but the duet is with the violin yeah the vocals are there the composition is there there's really that lasting impression of the track you know how does it make you feel when it's over the way that the song ends is really interesting to me because it ends in this big climax that doesn't have a denouement like it just stops

Yeah.

And the title of the song is Flamethrower, right?

So it makes me think that the point is to, like, sound like Pete is getting lit on fire, like he's kind of burning with Joan of Arc style.

And then the track just ends and it leaves the audience wanting more.

You know, it's over.

And I want more than these three minutes of Leak and Heighten.